SECRET NAZI WEAPON
DETAILS FOUND IN LONDON A SPY'S OVERSIGHT LONDON, Sept. 28. (Received Sept. 29, at 8 p.m.) The Sunday Express says it is possible to reveal that Captain Eberhard Spiller, assistant German Air Attache in London before the out. break of the war, who was killed in an air battle over Great Britain, un wittingly allowed details of one of Germany's secret weapons to ■ fall into British hands when War was imminent. Captain Spiller, who actually was a spy, fled from the country and the police searched his house in Hampstead and found de- ; tails of the secret weapon fallen be hind a chest.. Captain Spiller was among the members of the Embassy staff who did not pay his debts before leaving Great Britain The victims included many West End tradesmen, hotels and restaurants He also persuaded a neutral Embassy attache to cash a valueless cheque on the day before his departure.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24416, 30 September 1940, Page 5
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154SECRET NAZI WEAPON Otago Daily Times, Issue 24416, 30 September 1940, Page 5
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